On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:46:18PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > If Richard overwrote his modules anyway he must have hacked the Makefile > > himself to deliberately cause this, at which point... well saw wind > > harvest storm ;) > > > While I lack specific Fedora knowledge and thus can't provide exact > details for it I'd say it should still be pretty simple to recover. On > Slackware I'd simply boot a kernel from the install CD and tell it to > mount the installed system on my HD, then you'll have a running system and > can easily clean out the broken modules etc and install the original ones > from your CD and be right back where you started in 5 min. Surely > something similar is possible with Fedora, reinstalling from scratch (as > he said he did) seems like massive overkill to me. yeah there is rescue mode for that reason on the first cd